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Jun 12
A Very Merry (Hill) Theatre Visit
This week we were so lucky to be given the opportunity by our wonderful Friends of Merry Hill to go to a real theatre to see a show! The very kind Friends of Merry Hill decided to treat us after a year of working hard and doing our best! We travelled to Radlett Theatre by …
Jun 04
Literacy
In Literacy, Reception have been exploring their exciting new topic, The Natural World. The children used their imaginations to think about the different things they might see, hear, smell, touch and feel when walking through a forest. They then chose something they love about nature and created a front cover using the sentence stem, “I …
May 22
This Week in Reception
This week in Reception, we have been discussing the different weather as part of our daily calendar. We have found it very interesting and keep changing our weather window symbol – it has been quite funny swapping it from cloudy, to sunny, to rainy! It has prompted a lot of discussion about how quickly the …
May 15
Phonics and Habitats
The children in Reception are continuing to make fantastic progress in phonics and should be very proud of how well they are doing! They are growing in confidence when sounding out and blending sounds to help them write words independently, and many are beginning to use their phonics knowledge naturally within sentences. It has also …
Apr 30
Recycling!
This week in Reception we have been looking at our Earth and how we can take care of it. In our garden, we were learning to take care of it by collecting all the litter we found. We also had to litter pick all the rubbish in the sand pit that had blown in over …
Apr 24
This week in Reception
Welcome back! This week we kickstarted our learning with some very exciting news! We had a mystery letter arrive that was sent to us from a local hairdresser. The hairdresser was very confused about a visitor they’d had and asked us to help figure out who the mystery visitor was. With a little bit of …
Mar 26
Celebrations!
Reception have had a wonderful week celebrating Easter in our classroom, filled with a mix of meaningful learning and fun activities. On Wednesday, Father Burton led a special assembly where he shared the Easter story with the children, helping them to understand why Easter is important and the story behind it. Throughout the week, the …
Mar 20
Little City visit Merry Hill
This week we were very excited to welcome Little City to our school. When we arrived in the hall we could see some wonderful role play stations set up. We had a lovely time exploring all the different areas: vets, post office, fire and police station, supermarket, builders yard, hair salon, car garage, and cafe. …
Mar 12
Literacy and Castles
This week in literacy Reception began our exciting new topic “Martha Maps Out”, which focuses on journeys and maps. At the beginning of the week, we read the story together and explored the maps that Martha drew in the book. The children looked carefully at where Martha’s journey started and ended, and we talked about …
Mar 06
World Book Day in Reception!
This week we celebrated World Book Day! At the beginning of the week, Ms Adams asked us for some help. She wrote us a letter and came into our classroom to read it to us. She asked for some help to make her costume – she wanted us to think carefully about our school …